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Grade 3

• Geometry

  • 3.G.1
  • 3.G.2

• Measurement & Data

  • 3.MD.1
  • 3.MD.2
  • 3.MD.3
  • 3.MD.4
  • 3.MD.5
  • 3.MD.6
  • 3.MD.7.a
  • 3.MD.7
  • 3.MD.7.b
  • 3.MD.7.c
  • 3.MD.7.d
  • 3.MD.8

• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten

  • 3.NBT.1
  • 3.NBT.2
  • 3.NBT.3

• Numbers & Operations: Fractions

  • 3.NF.1
  • 3.NF.2
  • 3.NF.2.a
  • 3.NF.2.b
  • 3.NF.3.a
  • 3.NF.3.b
  • 3.NF.3.c
  • 3.NF.3.d
  • 3.NF.3

• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

  • 3.OA.1
  • 3.OA.2
  • 3.OA.3
  • 3.OA.4
  • 3.OA.5
  • 3.OA.6
  • 3.OA.7
  • 3.OA.8
  • 3.OA.9

CCSS Math Standard: 3.OA.9

Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends.

Gr 3-5

Gr 1-4

Gr 1-4

Factors and Codes: First Names (Episode 2)

Scrambled up somewhere in 161,000 is a first name. Can you find it!?

Gr 4

Factors and Codes (Episode 1)

Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.

Gr 4

Crossing Every Bridge Exactly Once (aka Eulerian Paths)

How can you cross each bridge in this city exactly once?

Gr 2-4

Math Curiosity: Magic Triangles

Can you make each side of this triangle add up to 9 using the digits 1-6?

Gr 2-8

How Many Will There Be? Chip Off The Block

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Earthworm

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Courtyard

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Checkerboard

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Crosses

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Squares in Squares

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

What’s the Pattern? Fraction Addition

Can your students figure out how to add fractions by looking for a pattern?

Gr 5

Find The Pattern: Multiply Fractions

What if you set the stage for students to discover how to multiply fractions?

Gr 5

Fizz Buzz: A Counting and Divisibility Game

Ready for a tricky counting and divisibility game?

Gr 3-6

How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction 234

How many different ways can you make this fraction subtraction statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 4-5

How Many Ways: Fractions Divide Equals 2/3

One equation. Digits one through nine. How many ways can you make it work?

Gr 5-6

How Many Ways: Fractions Multiply 2/3

How many different ways can you make this fraction multiplication statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 5-6

How Many Ways: Divide Fractions Equal 1/4

How many different ways can you make this fraction division math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 5-6

How Many Ways: Multiply Fractions Equal 1/4

One equation. Digits one through nine. How many ways can you make it work?

Gr 5-6

How Many Ways: Fraction Subtraction Equals 1/2

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 4-5

How Many Will There Be? Pyramids

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Sliced Circles

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Xs and Os

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Desks

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Stairs

Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.

Gr 4-7

How Many Will There Be? Flowers

These flowers sure are getting bigger faster! How large will they be in step 10? What about step 50?

Gr 4-7

Game: Number Scrabble

What if we played Tic-Tac-Toe with numbers and instead of three-in-a-row, we add up to 15? Well… then we’d have Number Scrabble!

Gr 1-6

Addition: 3 Digits Plus 2 Digits (Multiple Solutions)

Typical practice problems don’t move students up Bloom’s Taxonomy. With this framework, you’ll see kids stop and really think about how to approach multi-digit addition.

Gr 3-6

How Many Will There Be? Triangles Within Triangles

A triangle splits and splits and splits again. How many will there be in step 20?

Gr 4-7

Math Curiosity: Klauber’s Triangle

In 1932, a leading authority on rattlesnakes, Laurence Klauber, discovered a startling pattern within a triangle of primes.

Gr 2-8

Math Curiosity: Ulam Spiral

What if we make a huge spiral of numbers and then highlight only the primes? Well, a bunch of weird patterns show up!

Gr 1-4

Math Curiosity: A Pattern Packed Triangle

Pascal’s pattern-packed triangle is a potent puzzle for pupils to ponder.

Gr 4-5

Math Curiosity: Goldbach’s Conjecture

Can any even number be written as the sum of two primes? Goldbach thought so, but we haven’t proven it… yet!

Gr 1-5

Evens and Odds – Addition and Subtraction

When we’re adding and subtracting, do evens make odds into evens? Do odds make evens odd? Which one has… more power!?

Gr 3-4

Create Your Own Operation

The commutative and associative properties are a whole lot more interesting when you apply them to a mathematical operation that you created!

Gr 3-4

Parentheses: How big of a change can they make!?

Two tiny parentheses. One expression. How big of a change can they make? Bigger than you think.

Gr 3-8

How Many Ways: Fraction Equivalence

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 3-5

How Many Ways: Times Equals Minus

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 3-5

How Many Ways: Times Equals Times

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 3-5

How Many Ways: Order of Operations 1

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 5-6

How Many Ways: 2 Digit ÷ 1 Digit = 1 Digit

How many different ways can you make this math statement true using only the digits one through nine?

Gr 3-4

Same Perimeter, Different Area For Rectangles

Can two rectangles have the same perimeter but… different areas!?

Gr 3-4

Undoing Multiplication With Division

Multiplication and division, natural foes, are constantly seeking to undo each other. Students will attempt to reverse the effects of multiplication by dividing once, twice, or even thrice!

Gr 3-4

Exponents – How Low Can They Go?

Using exponent patterns, can students predict what the 0th power will be?

Gr 3-8

Calculators, Patterns, and Multiplying By Decimals

Before teaching students the procedure for multiplying with decimals, how much can they intuitively glean from a structured play session with calculators?

Gr 5

Math Curiosity: Four Squares

Every positive integer can be written as the sum of (at most) four perfect squares!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 8

Math Curiosity: Magic Squares

Imagine a 3×3 square in which every row, column, and diagonal have the same sum. That’s a magic square!

Gr 1-4

Math Curiosity: Odds & Squares

Why does the sum of the first 5 odds also equal 5 squared?

Gr 1-4

Doubling Dollars

Say you have a dollar. Say you can double that dollar each day: $1, $2, $4, and so on. How long will it take to reach… one million dollars? Not as long as you might think!

Gr 3-6

Math Curiosity: Waring’s Conjecture

So, can you write every odd (greater than 3) as the sum of three primes?

Math Curiosity: Primes and Squares

Can any perfect square be written as the sum of two primes?

Gr 2-4

Math Curiosity: Legendre’s Conjecture

It seems like there’s always a prime number between two perfect squares… but is this always the case!?

Gr 3-6

Math Curiosity: Finding Primes

Prime numbers are unpredictable! How can we possibly find them all? An Ancient Greek mathematician found one way!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6

Math Curiosity: Twin Primes

What do you call two prime numbers who are very close together?

Gr 3-5

Math Curiosity: Palindromic Number Conjecture

Using this one weird trick, it seems that you can turn any number into a palindrome!

Gr 1-4

The Game of 100

Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?

Gr 2-7

Math Curiosity: Collatz Conjecture

The Collatz Conjecture: start with any number and get to 1 using just two rules. It seems to always work…

Gr 1-5